Seminar 2 summary
This week’s seminar was an interesting seminar covering the design of qualitative research studies. The responses were varied from suggestions of interviews attempting to cover stigma, to interviews about interviewee experience of dementia among many others. Many of the question sets were comprehensive in covering the subject described.
The process of organising qualitative research and the aspects considered varied also. Most people considered both interviewees interpretations of their own experiences as well as those they perceived were occurring externally (e.g. how others are affected by their illness/behaviour), patients understanding of disease and risk factors also featured often.
Notably there was a combination of closed/open questions and also technical/basic questions to achieve different responses from interviewees.
Some of the research ideas suggested questions which may be considered to cover sensitive areas, some responded to this by outlining carefully the setting and nature of recruitment, whilst others did not do this to such an extent. Examples of recruitment techniques considered: through GP services and snowballing.
